Unless you're a fan of automobiles traveling rapidly around a tilted oval, you probably didn't watch the 96th Indy 500 today. Spoiler alert: Dario Franchitti won. That's a big deal for him, I guess, but someone wins every year and he'd already won twice before. It's not every year, however, that someone has an all-woman crew with her — in fact, it hadn't happened until today, when Katherine Legge, the ninth female driver to qualify for the Indy 500, became the first driver with an all-lady squad.

Wearing a Girl Scout logo on her helmet, Legge said that she hoped to get the message out there that girls should "follow whatever they want to be." She credited her parents with teaching her that she could do anything she damn well wanted, so long as she "really, really" wanted to, even if that anything was driving cars at speeds that would make your skin do that rippling wind-tunnel thing.